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The EU is understandably upset by the Bush tariffs on steel (well, partially understandably--it's not like they're exactly innocent of subsidies and other market interference). I am also.
But I found this headline bizarre:
EU condemns Bush's 'Wild West' steel tariffs
What do steel tariffs have to do with the "wild west"?
This is like when they were calling Bush a "cowboy" because he wouldn't go along with Kyoto or ABM.
Just what is it with Europeans and the American West? Is it too emblematic of individualism? Is it the guns? Do they hate non-metric ten-gallon hats? Were they scared by a cow when they were young?
What?
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 06, 2002 05:26 PM
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It's just what they know about us from all those German Western novels by that guy whose name escapes me and later all those spaghetti Westerns, like us hearing "France" and thinking "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." I think the dominant image Europeans have of Americans remains the cowboy, even though that hasn't been the dominant image we've had of ourselves for a while now.
Posted by Justin Slotman at March 7, 2002 07:48 AM
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